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Home of the Rough Rider. RR offers all of the great knife patterns from the past. Quality and affordable, a rare product these days.

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Rough Rider

Although an Import Rough Rider Brand by Smoky Mountain Knife Works continues to get high marks as a favorite for collectors.

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And Then There Was One!

Started by Charles Sample. Last reply by J.J. Smith III Dec 30, 2024. 6 Replies 4 Likes

Rough Rider produced a series of twelve knives called the Rifleman Series. Each knife has brown gunstock bone scales. The shield is a Winchester Model 1873 lever action rifle, often referred to as…Continue

Blade thickness

Started by J.J. Smith III. Last reply by J.J. Smith III Nov 1, 2024. 7 Replies 1 Like

As I posted in my last discussion on Rough Rider vs CASE, I'm having issues with the thinness of some of the Rough Rider blades.I questioned this on the Rough Rider Facebook page and was confronted…Continue

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Unusual Model No. on a RR

Started by Charles Sample. Last reply by Kevin Oct 29, 2024. 8 Replies 0 Likes

I just got this Rough Rider RR22034BN orange smooth bone trapper. I have never seen this type of RR model no. before. Is it a new numbering system for RR? Can anyone tell me anything about it?…Continue

New Rough Rider collector

Started by Susie Fitzsimmons. Last reply by Kevin Oct 27, 2024. 9 Replies 4 Likes

A couple years ago I bought a collection of knives from a man I worked with. I gave $200 for 77 knives. I gave it to my husband for Christmas. He looked at it, enjoyed it then put it away for…Continue

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Comment by J.J. Smith III on May 21, 2012 at 15:26: Didn't meen to digress into a discussion if they would replace the knife or not. Just wanted to let Jay know that I really liked the scales on mine. It was the first "Pearl" handle that I bought, only because of the appearance of the scales.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on May 21, 2012 at 14:52: The boys on Knives Live TV has been saying for some time now that Rough Rider knives with Pearl (as well as Stag) are pretty much a thing of the past. They will not be remaking them and if a decision to remake them ever comes up it will be at a higher price point.

From what I've seen they have opted to put use pearl in some of their other higher priced knives and on imported Remington's made exclusively by them. The stag is showing up on their TM Colt and Marbles knives.

Apparently both pearl and stag are bit too expensive at current market prices. I guess what I'm saying, is if you want it, get ready to pay more and get it on eBay or some of the other knife sellers. It is out there but it ain't as cheap as it used to be.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on May 21, 2012 at 13:05: I've never had a problem with one of their knives, just wondering.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on May 21, 2012 at 12:16: I'm sure that they'd replace the knife, just not sure if they still carry it in the Bark Pearl.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on May 21, 2012 at 10:21: Robert, my experience has been they will honor their warranty so if the backspring broke, then they will honor it unless it was altered in some way such as file work or such.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on May 21, 2012 at 7:34: JJ. I had a Queen knife back spring brake, they replaced the knife. I wonder what SMKW would do?

Comment by J.J. Smith III on May 21, 2012 at 0:14: Jay,

I've got one of the bark pearl whittlers. Nice scales but one of the back springs broke when setting it up for pics. Bee a couple of years, didn't think they were still in production.

Comment by Billy Oneale on May 20, 2012 at 21:26: I have a couple of Benchmark knives with ceramic blades. I have not used any except for a paring knife I bought for my wife. It worked really good for a while. My wife would wash it in the dishwasher and it developed some small chips in the cutting surface. Debra really liked it. It was a white blade which stains really easy.

Comment by Jay Sack on May 20, 2012 at 7:25: The smoky mountain knife works current catalog (page 42) offers a bark pearl medium stockman for $16.99. The catalog picture is not that clear. Does anyone have pictures of any of the bark pearl series of knives?

Comment by robert benton on May 19, 2012 at 10:52: anyone have any of the RR,s with Bark Pearl scales? I remember seeing them in the SMKW catalog acouple of years ago, are they still being made?